Hope
- Length
- 20 min
- Chapters
- 16
- Language
- English
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Hope by William Dean Howells.
This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2019. ------
A short, vivid seafaring poem that holds out hope for an afterlife, wonderfully crafted by William Dean Howells, an American novelist, literary critic, poet and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for his own prolific writings (Summary by Michele Fry and Wikipedia)
Chapters
From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens poemhunter.com), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).